The Cottage

The Cottage is a timber-frame cottage, originally built around the early 18th century, with alterations and additions made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The exterior is rendered timber frame, set on a brick plinth. It has a steeply pitched pantile roof with breeze boards to the gable ends, along with projecting gable end stacks and a lateral stack to the side of the rear wing.

The cottage began as a small, single-storey and attic building with a three-room plan. The end rooms were originally heated by the gable end stacks, while the central room is now the entrance hall, featuring a 20th-century porch and staircase. A wing at the rear of the right-hand room likely dates to the later 18th or 19th century, potentially indicating a time when the cottage was subdivided. Outshuts on either side of the rear wing and behind the central room of the main range were probably added in the late 19th century. In the 20th century, the first floor of the left-hand room was raised, a single-storey wooden extension (a sun room) was added to the right end, and porches were built at the front and back.

The south front has an asymmetrical appearance with four windows. There are small 20th-century, two-light casement windows with transoms. A doorway is located to the right of centre, leading to a 20th-century gabled, rendered porch with a pantile roof. There are three gabled dormers with plain bargeboards. A 20th-century single-storey wooden extension is located on the right-hand end. The rear (north) elevation features a gable-ended wing to the left, with a pantile roof sweeping over outshuts on either side and another outshut in the angle behind the main range; these all have 20th-century casement windows.

Inside, the right-hand room has a chamfered axial beam with one remaining hollow step stop, along with exposed joists. The axial beam in the centre room (entrance hall) is boxed in, and the ceiling in the left-hand room has been raised. Both fireplaces in the end rooms have 20th-century chimneypieces, and the fireplace in the rear wing has been rendered. All interior joinery appears to be 20th century, including plank doors and the winder staircase in the rear, right-hand corner of the centre room. The roof structure is inaccessible, but the rafter ends are exposed under the eaves.